S8, Ep 51: Summer Stream Insights: George Costa on Conditions, Patterns and Upcoming Events

Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly.We're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with the man himself, Internet George Costa. George, how are you?

Amazing as always, Marvin. Thank you. How are you?

I'm. I'm getting there. How's the ambiance in the stock room this afternoon?

It's very nice back here in the stock room. The dehumidifier is running. It's. It's cool and it's shady and it's quite nice. Thank you for asking.

Yeah, it's all good.You know, it's kind of funny, we were talking before we started recording and like I always do with all my fishing report folks, I look at the weather just to kind of see what's going on and you know you've got us beat by about 15 degrees. It's pretty nice in State College right now, right?

It is. It is a marked improvement over last week. Last week it was hot, as was the whole east coast. Everybody knows this week is cooled down quite nicely.We've got temps at night down in the 60s and daytime temps have been in the high 70s, low 80s for the past few days, which is great for water temps. We also got a really nice shot of rain over this week here. We got, you know, a lot of rain Sunday into Monday.There were some flood watches here and there throughout the county, so streams were bumped up and pretty high levels right now are pretty good on most of the streams. Spring Penns, Fishing Creek are all a little above average and running just a little off color.Little Jay did get a lot more water than we did up here, so that's been pretty much blown out all week. It's on the drop and should be fishable, I would say within the next 24 hours going into the weekend. So that's coming back into shape.And a little more rain this weekend will bump the flows a tiny bit more, but not too much more expected this time of year. You always got to really watch out for those thunderstorms because the water will come up and then it'll drop back down in four or five hour stretch.So temps have been good throughout the week, but definitely the time of year to check those afternoon temps because the water on some of the streams will definitely start pushing into the high 60s. So just be conscious of that on the fishing front. Mornings have been pretty good. That's been where better action has been.We are starting to see some Tricos on Spring Creek and some of the other area streams. So Tricos are just getting underway. That's the best in the morning anyway.Look for those trikes between like 8 and 11 in the morning is usually the best time for them. Still a handful of Cahill's around, some golden stones here and there on the dry fly front. Evening action is going to be like some Cahill, some caddis.But terrestrials have really been what's been key. You know, ants, greenie weenies, beetles, crickets, things like that.If you're going to search with patterns, those are your best bets for this time of year. Nymphing's been consistent and a couple guys did pretty good on streamers this week when the water was up and off color.So doesn't hurt to throw a little streamer when the water's up and off color. So overall for this time of year, we're in much better shape than we were last week.The cooler temps and the nice push of water this week and make conditions pretty good and should continue into next week.

Well, that's really cool.And I know, I think the last time you spoke, the main event you were promoting kind of heading into the summer was your big festival event down in, I think, Boiling Springs. But if you got. You got that. And do you have any fishing tournaments left?

The last tournament is taking place this weekend. We've got the Bass Thumb tournament getting started tonight. That's the next two days down on the West Branch of the Susquehanna and the Juniata River.Those guys are all there. They've got a full, full roster for that tournament down there. So that's a great event that we've been doing every July for the past couple years.We've got the outdoor fly fishing festival down at Boiling Springs coming up beginning August. That's going to be another great festival. It's over at the children's lake park there, right at our Boiling Springs shop in the first week of August.So that'll be a fun event worth checking out. Other than that in the shop, not an awful lot going on. You know, we're in the summertime slow kind of season right now.I'm sure we'll have a bunch of classes and all our full schedule for tying classes in store classes that's coming up soon, in the next couple of months. So keep your eyes peeled on our website for all that info.

Very, very cool, folks. And you know, we love questions. And you love questions too, George, right?

Some questions, not all questions.

But you like authentic non AI generated questions, right?

In fact, I do, yes, very much so.

It warms the cockles of your heart. So if you like George's, laugh and you want him to be happy D me or email me your questions.And if we use one of your questions on the fishing report, I'll send you some articulate flying butcher shop swag. And when you're into a drawing for something cool from the shop at the end of the season.And George, I mean, I could do it by heart now too, but you want to let folks know location, shop hours and all that kind of good stuff.

Don't steal my thunder. Here at State College at TCO, we're open Monday through Saturday 9 to 6, Sundays 9 to 3.All of our other shops are open similar hours at all of our locations. And hit us up on the web at tcoflyfishing.com yeah, I kind of almost.

Knocked you off your horse there, didn't I?

You did.

You did.

You off kiltered me.

Well, listen, folks, you owe it to yourself to get out there and fish because it's just going to be hot. And as the summer drags on, your options are going to be skinnier and skinnier for trout. So get out there and catch a few tight lines, everybody.Tight lines. George.

Take it easy, Marv.